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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by kuschku on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:23PM (#15511664)
> You can't do this at all in PostgreSQL since you will hit a column limit.

JSONB is designed for exactly this, isn’t it?

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Re:MongoDB shares jump more than 30% in $192M IPO by threeseed on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:39PM (#15512139)
Sure. But MongoDB is far better at scaling, has infinitely better drivers (including Spark) and is about an order of magnitude faster than PostgreSQL for partial updates.

The lack of a Spark driver alone renders PostgreSQL useless for most companies.

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